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I'm looking for a a small phone (less than 5") that is less than $300 and is moderately powerful. I'm thinking of getting a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, but it seems a little old and I would prefer a newer one. Some other concerns are that it must have a good back camera, a no glare good contrast screen and the screen must be at least 720 or 1080p. Thank You

I'm thinking of getting a new phone and I have a really limited selection through my carriers monthly payment plans. It seems that the Oneplus 3 is the fastest phone I can potentially get.. Will it be enough in 2-3 years? I've had a Lumia 640 LTE for about a year now (cheap phone though) and Microsoft seems to have dropped almost all support on it (most notable in OneDrive services), and they generally don't seem to care about Windows Phone. So I certainly need an upgrade. (640 is barely usable as a basic phone sometimes but that's another topic). Before that I had a Nokia N900 for a long time and it got really slow compared to other phones being sold after it. Oh and since this is my first "proper" post here, don't bite, please.

hey guys. i am looking for a daily smartphone. and i found this deal in Gumtree, HTC one M8 for AUD$180 is it a good deal? now i dont know much about phones an such. if you have any answer, that will help me a tons. thank you =)

What I'm looking for: Android phone Decent cameras (front and back facing) Fairly mainstream (Nexus, Samsung, HTC, etc) 5-6 inch display 64 GB of internal storage or 16/32GB internal with SD card expansion

I have to be honest. I haven't really thought about the security risks of when repairing a phone on third party locations. I remember there was a Apple related discussion on this topic some time ago. However, I considered it more as a way to Apple to collect better profits. Turns out they were not totally wrong. I also share this peace of news since I think there are others as well who should be aware of the situation. So some researches had a proof of concept, where they were able to record the unlock pattern to the phone, install app, take a picture and send it via email. According to the article everything is fine until you go to third party vendor to get your phone fixed. This also applies to me since I would consider fixing my screen at home. Now, I have to think carefully is it worth the risk that someone hijacks my phone. So basically everyone are guessing how widely this type of attack vector would be feasible. To be clear: it is no wonder that someone with that level of access to any device can compromise it. The news here are the scale and cheap price of the method. It'd be easy to mass produce malicious screens with a small cost. source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/a-repair-shop-could-completely-hack-your-phone-and-you-wouldnt-know-it/?utm_content=buffer96265&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I was looking for a new phone and these two seem quite good. However they both seem very similar spec wise so and I can't find many videos on comparisons of the two. What one do you guys think is the best? Do you have any other suggestions for phones under £300-ish. Thanks in advance :).

Razer phone announced with: 5.7in 1440p variable refresh rate screen (120Hz) Android 7.1.1 Nougat 8GB of RAM 64GB of expandable storage Stereo front-facing speakers with Dolby Atmos 4,000mAh battery Snapdragon 835 processor Dual 12-megapixel cameras and is $700 USD and ships on November 17 No 3.5mm Jack I personally think that this overkill (it has double the ram of my laptop!), only for a certain few, and is not for me. Original Article: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/1/16519692/razer-phone-android-gaming-specs-release-date-price-photos

So I going to get a new phone soon, and I want to do somthing other then apple. And I was wondering what are good company’s to get phones from(specifically android), also what OS is that razer phone going to use Thanks

Hi all, Looking for a decent mid-range phone at around $250-$500(New Zealand Dollars), just really needs to do social media (Facebook, Snapchat etc.) and video streaming (e.g. YouTube, Twitch) while being responsive and having a decent battery life. Currently using a hand-me down Galaxy S4 which is OK functionally, but battery life is abhorrent even after being replaced (16 minute YouTube video takes 10% of battery.) Cheers

Plain and simple, give me your thoughts. I'm looking at buying either. I've watched pros and cons for both, but need an opinion from a community. Things i want to know about, durability, real world performance, signal reliability Big question for me is IF, or WHEN android O will come to these phones. How has your experience been? Just want some thoughts.

I bought a nice braided USB-C cable, and I noticed that it has many more pins than the charging cable my Nexus 6P came with. Old cable: New cable: Does this equate to a difference in potential data transfer speeds and/or power delivery? What's the reason for this?

im not sure if that customisable audio from the news strip applies but i would really like to know if this is acctualy going to work well and if so then how high quality is it. however it does seem that the sound quality is decent form the in phone app tests https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/28/lg-v30-customizable-high-quality-audio/ Quote Other features include MQA audio file decoding, a microphone that can record everything from "a whisper to a thunderstorm, without distortion," and an audio distortion rate below 0.0002 percent. The V30 will also come with B&O Play earphones.

I am looking for some way to add a sequence of key presses on my galaxy s8, or maybe just the Bixby button, that would begin an audio recording. I haven't rooted this new phone yet, but if it means I have to, I could probably do it. I heard that you can't change the Bixby button, but is there any way to do a sequence of keypresses or something on the lock screen?

What do you think about flip phones, like ZTE Axom M with 2 screens? Seems like a trend, ZTE, Samsung, Xiaomi... maybe even Apple

I am wanting to get a new phone to replace my ancient iphone 4s.I am debating if I should get a Iphone x when it comes out or the S8 and save some money. With the iphone it has my games on gamecenter and I enjoy apple phones but the price of it. With the S8 it has a lower price and a headphone jack and usb type c but I will lose my clash royale and clans progress. Which one should I get?

Im stuck between Zenfone 3 max , ZTE Axon 7 mini ,Moto E4 plus and Huawei P8 lite

budget phone vote moto g5 plus is a good all rounder but it looks bad and software buttons. lg q6 has the best design but no fingerprint sensor and a weak performance. xperia xa1 is the odd one htc u play the only real downside is the performance it has the most lag of them all oppo f1s the software it almost worse than ios almost I won't bye one

I currently have a Samsung Galaxy S8, and I want to get a good smartwatch to go with it. I have looked at the gear s3, but it seems like it doesn't have many apps, the fitness tracking is bad, and I despise those bubbly-looking icons on Samsung devices. I've looked at a few others, but they all seem to have a few glaring issues. I'm looking for a decent watch that looks nice and performs nicely. Any suggestions?

So I’m going to get a Phone sometime during Christmas and I was wondering which one I should get for budget, I know Apple is not the way so I’m left with android but since I’ve never gotten into android phones just a little refresh would be nice. Like which ones are old which ones are coming out soon and stuff like that. My budget is around $200 here are some phones that caught my eye. All I need to do on my phone is watch videos, play some games and text and call https://www.motorola.com/us/products/moto-e-gen-4 Thanks

Hi Everyone its Doge Here And Today I am gonna review my new phone: The BLU Life Mark. I found this phone on Craigslist for thirty dollars used. So I would like to review it today! Specs: 5 Inch IPS Display, 1.3 GHz Quad Core Processor, 2GB Ram, 16 GB Of Memory, 13 MP Camera, 4G LTE And Android Lollipop. As u can see the specs are the best u can get for the thirty dollars I hot it for. Speakers: My least Favorite Part Of the phone are the speakers they are back facing Loud speakers but they get muffled easily. Screen: Not Very Bright But Everything else is good about it. Camera: Its OK I guess. Battery: It sucks a lot this is also really bad. So That's what I got to say everyone have a good day and bye!!

ok guys im looking for a phone that's under $300 i want the great display (main feature) great performance is also important i need it to be up-to-date and still active in terms of updates and headphone jack is appreciated at leats 16 gb storage besides that i dont care about the camera as long as it actually has one speakers are not that important if possible expandable storage but again not that important and basically anything else im willing to compromise it has to be on Amazon or on someplace that ships to Puerto Rico the cheaper you can go the better

I'm looking for the best USB type-c charging cable out their, what I want from it? USB type-A to USB type-c USB 3.0 speeds Braided Cable Magnetic tip that stays in device (such as this https://www.sukar.us/products/swift-magnetic-charger-cable-for-iphone-android-samsung?variant=40681565130&gclid=Cj0KEQjw4cLKBRCZmNTvyovvj-4BEiQAl_sgQl0_2S0tEibBw-OJ4wgXtB3IoMBAPe_4KvMHP0jSZSkaAnNT8P8HAQ ) Fast Charging Ive looked around Amazon a bit and I have yet to find a product that has all of these features, if anyone knows where I can get a cable like this that would be amazing, thanks.

early an accusation of cheating "Earlier this year, we published a report that denounced OnePlus (and other companies) for their improper behavior in regards to benchmark manipulation on newer builds of OxygenOS. Today, we sadly must follow-up on our accusations as the company has once more been inappropriately manipulating benchmark scores in the OnePlus 5." getting caught redhanded "While no customers have a device in their hands (it just launched after all), we have learned about OnePlus’ new benchmark cheating mechanism through our review unit, which we received about ten days ago before the day the embargo breaks and reviewers are allowed to report on the device. Unfortunately, it is almost certain that every single review of the OnePlus 5 that contains a benchmark is using misleading results, as OnePlus provided reviewers a device that cheats on benchmarks." how is it done? "When entering certain benchmarking apps, the OnePlus 3T’s cores would stay above 0.98 GHz for the little cores and 1.29 GHz for the big cores, even when the CPU load dropped to 0%. This is quite strange, as normally both sets of cores drop down to 0.31 GHz on the OnePlus 3T when there is no load. Upon first seeing this we were worried that OnePlus’ CPU scaling was simply set a bit strangely, however upon further testing we came to the conclusion that OnePlus must be targeting specific applications. Our hypothesis was that OnePlus was targeting these benchmarks by name, and was entering an alternate CPU scaling mode to pump up their benchmark scores. One of our main concerns was that OnePlus was possibly setting looser thermal restrictions in this mode in order avoid the problems they had with the OnePlus One, OnePlus X, and OnePlus 2, where the phones were handling the additional cores coming online for the multi-core section of Geekbench poorly, and occasionally throttling down substantially as a result (to the point where the OnePlus X sometimes scored lower in the multi-core section than in the single core section). You can find heavy throttling in our OnePlus 2 review, where we found the device could shed off up to 50% of its Geekbench 3 multi-core score. Later, when we began comparing throttling and thermals across devices, the OnePlus 2 became a textbook example of what OEMs should avoid." why does it matter? they got caught cheating in the one plus 5 benchmark " The OnePlus 5, on the other hand, is an entirely different beast — it resorts to the kind of obvious, calculated cheating mechanisms we saw in flagships in the early days of Android, an approach that is clearly intended to maximize scores in the most misleading fashion. While there are no governor switches when a user enters a benchmark (at least, we can’t seem to see that’s the case), the minimum frequency of the little cluster jumps to the maximum frequency as seen under performance governors. All little cores are affected and kept at 1.9GHz, and it is through this cheat that OnePlus achieves some of the highest GeekBench 4 scores of a Snapdragon 835 to date – and likely the highest attainable given its no-compromise configuration with its specific configuration. Scores certainly higher than those obtained by similar devices and Qualcomm’s own MSM8998 test device which we were lucky enough to benchmark. Below is a list of benchmark applications affected: AnTuTu (com.antutu.benchmark.full) Androbench (com.andromeda.androbench2) Geekbench 4 (com.primatelabs.geekbench) GFXBench (com.glbenchmark.glbenchmark27) Quadrant (com.aurorasoftworks.quadrant.ui.standard) Nenamark 2 (se.nena.nenamark2) Vellamo (com.quicinc.vellamo) " what did we learn? Fool me Once, Shame on Me; Fool me Twice, Shame on You "It is a bit upsetting that it has gotten to the point where we have to call out the same company twice for manipulating benchmark scores. The fact that all of this was done on review units as well further exacerbates the issue: this cheating mechanism is aimed at maximizing performance and making the device look better or faster in performance sections of reviews. The targeting and manipulation system was packaged in pre-production units sent to journalists who will base their findings on their device from OnePlus, many of them unable or unwilling to verify the existence of cheating in their review unit. It is by no means their fault, but XDA is on the lookout for benchmark manipulation only because we found it in the past, and we thought it was best to inform our readers and potential phone buyers. We hope this article might rekindle a broader conversation about benchmarks, their role, and their utility in today’s smartphone reviews. Make no mistake, companies like Qualcomm and Samsung do care about benchmarks, and they do consider them a valid, if incomplete, way for customers to judge the performance of their devices even though they have more sophisticated tools to refer to when developing their processors. Ultimately, benchmarks can be of great importance if one understands what the software is measuring, and to which extent its results can be used to deduce the ranking of a particular processor, a particular configuration of hardware, or in more holistic terms, a specific phone with the changes in behavior its software introduces as well. I think that we have come to a time where it is more important to focus on real-world performance and power efficiency than in raw computing or processing prowess, because it is obviously clear at this point that the bottleneck to real-world performance comes from Android and particular implementations of it by OEMs." source -https://www.xda-developers.com/benchmark-cheating-strikes-back-how-oneplus-and-others-got-caught-red-handed-and-what-theyve-done-about-it/ -https://www.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5-benchmark-cheating-reviews/ TLDR- one plus has a history of getting caught cheating on benchmarks, they are still doing it with the one plus 5. one plus 5

Which SOC is superior and why? They seem pretty equal on paper

I was wondering if there is any service online to pay monthly for devices, parts, and to my topic phones. carriers provide monthly payments for financing phones is there a way to do this without a carrier?